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ADJECTIVES— DERIVATION
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examples below occur in dictionaries, an unmistakeable
deviation from the general sense will be observed in them.
An illustration of the difference of these shades of
meaning is given very clearly in the following two cases.
In A Song of Italy we find the following eulogy of
Garibaldi:
II, 265, Not with the sick sweet lips of slaves that sing
Praise thou no priest or king,
No brow-bound laurel of discoloured leaf,
But him, the crownless chief.
With this compare:
III, 301, And fear the high song taught him; fear to be
Worthless the dear love of the wind and sea . . .
. . . Fear to go crownless of the flower he wore
When the winds loved him . . .
Leaving the rather curious use of worthless in the
last instance out of the question, we here find a rather
apt illustration of the difference between a ’stressed’ and
an ’unstressed’ suffix.
This stressing of the suffixes is chiefly to be observed
in the case of -fill and -less, as has already been said.
More particularly does it occur in the case of the latter:
some instances follow here.
I, 163, All shrines that were Vestal are flameless . . .
II, 50, . . . urges to slumberless speed . . .
68, The spears one shield/ess bosom breasted . . .
84, ... the tongue less head . . .
S5, The phantom of a C/iristless cross . . .
94, ... running with lampless hands . . .
115, The priestless temples cry to the thrones made king-
less . . .
III, 97, Youth with wreathless hair . . .
179, Red skies hang sunless yet . . .
200, . . . The moonless midnight . . .
311, The twilight hangs half starless . . .
V, 86, The pastures are herdless and sheepless . . .
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